From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Mar 14 09:13:39 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:13:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DAt8F-0006q9-3x for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:13:31 -0800 Received: from phma.hn.org ([216.189.113.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DAt8C-0006pA-PV for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:13:31 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 752E2B1BB; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:12:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: shark Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:12:52 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200503120857.23340.phma@phma.hn.org> <12d58c160503140708331f94d7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <12d58c160503140708331f94d7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503141212.52721.phma@phma.hn.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 9580 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Monday 14 March 2005 10:08, Adam COOPER wrote: > One source I read asserts that sharks, skates, & rays are all > basically the same critter. Sharks seem to be split into four orders, > but all the cartliaginous fishies are called "chondrichthyes". So I > propose {finprkondro} for the entire class. I call them {ranbo'ufi'e} (see [[gombesa]]). According to Wikipedia, there are eight orders of sharks, four of rays (some of which are skates), and one of chimaeras. I still think we should have a word for sharks, which are a superorder. phma -- Ils pensent que j'ai un cancer du thé russe... -Les Perles de la médecine